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CDPH Data Breach Affects 9,000 State Workers
For the second time in just over six months, officials at the California Department of Public Health have acknowledged...
Web Exclusive: CA Investigating Latest Health Net Data Breach
The California Department of Managed Health Care says it is investigating the loss of several servers containing the...
MGH to Pay $1M to Settle 'Potential' HIPAA Violation
Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay $1 million to settle  allegations it violated patient privacy...
Web Exclusive: NY Hospital Data Theft May Affect Records of 1.7 Million
New York City officials have begun notifying 1.7 million patients, staff, contractors, vendors, and others who were...
Web Exclusive: UMC Tucson Fires 3 for Privacy Breaches
University Medical Center in Tucson says it is not aware of any confidential patient information being released...
Security Breach Puts 500,000 BlueCross Members' Data at Risk
The theft of 57 hard drives from a BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee training facility last October has put at risk the...
Flurry of HIPAA Activity Expected Over Next Three Months
The Office for Civil Rights in all likelihood will publish a draft or interim final rule outlining the new requirements...
HIPAA's Harm Threshold is a Huge Weakness
A lawyer and panelist at last week's 17th annual national HIPAA Summit called HHS' new "harm threshold" in...
Is HIPAA's New Harm Threshold Good News or Bad?
HHS' interim final rule on breach notification released last week included most of the same requirements in the HITECH...
Beware of More Stringent State HIPAA Laws
The alleged patient-record snoopers at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital in Los Angeles County picked the wrong...